Christopher Moore's History News

(I meant to post this yesterday on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, but things intervened.) Truth Before Reconciliation: Confr...

You can say almost anything about Canadian history if you put John A. Macdonald in the story: "If John A. Macdonald . . . can build a r...

  At last weekend's legal history gathering, I reconnected with a longtime acquaintance, Carolyn Strange, the Canadian scholar who is no...

I spent part of the weekend  very comfortably hosted at Osgoode Hall Law School's downtown centre and the University of Toronto's Fa...

Columnist Stephen Maher attacked MP and former Conservative party leader Andrew Scheer in the Toronto Star of September 23, pointing out t...

I was sorry to read of the sudden and too-soon death of Queen's University historian Karen Dubinsky. I did not know her, but I was stru...

Sgt York, bronzed CBC News notes the return of the strange story in which American Christian-nationalist and Republican Party activist Doug ...

Back home and with thoughts. The Maritimes -- never had a bad holiday there. One of our projects this time was chasing sites where my wife...

I used to declare a blog hiatus, with an announced return, when I went on holiday travels.  But then I started occasional more-or-less histo...

Westley Wark, historian and security policy consultant, has a new post on his Substack about Nazi war criminals in Canada and a recent cour...

In the previous post inspired by Bill Graham's memoir The Call of the World ,  I was contemplating Graham's brief vivid summary (pp ...

On the Acadiensis website, David A. Wilson gives a moving obituary of Peter Toner  , 41-year member of the University of New Brunswick Saint...

I recently picked up a copy of The Call of the World , a 2016 memoir by Chretien-era politician and foreign minister Bill Graham, having hea...

It's getting to be book prize season, and both the John W. Dafoe Prize (Canadian) and the Cundill Prize (international)  have nominee li...